Saint's Progress
1919
1914. War is coming, and with it, everything Edward Pierson has built his life around, order, faith, the certain protection of family, will be tested. A clergyman of quiet conviction, Pierson watches his daughter Noel fall desperately in love with Cyril Morland, a young officer shipment-bound for the Front. The trouble is not that Morland is unsuitable; the trouble is that he is entirely suitable, charming, decent, and destined for the trenches. As England hurtles toward catastrophe, Pierson faces an impossible question: how do you protect your child from a world that is about to destroy itself? Galsworthy writes with aching precision about the small tragedies that precede the large ones, the dances before the departures, the futures foreclosed before they're even imagined. This is a novel about love as both salvation and catastrophe, and about the particular agony of watching someone you love walk toward danger you cannot stop.
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